Arts and Humanities

  • Arts and Humanities

    The Statewide Data Infrastructure Project for Arts Education

    03/17/17

    This cooperative agreement project from the NEA will develop a tool to better extract data and produce reports about states' arts education. Deadline was April 2, 2017.

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    Knight (John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)

    02/22/17

    The Knight Foundation was the top funder of journalism and public media between 2014-2018, according to Inside Philanthropy. They invest in local journalism, as well as tools to improve revenue generation for journalism, combating misinformation, schools of journalism, and reaching underserved audiences. Giving is limited to the 26 designated Knight Communities.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Kresge Foundation

    02/16/17

    The Foundation's arts and culture grantmaking focuses on "creative placemaking." Grants also available for college readiness and access.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Creating Humanities Communities

    01/06/17

    This new NEH program makes matching awards to collaboratives that produce humanities projects for underserved states and territories. Deadline was February 14, 2018.

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    NEA Research Labs

    09/07/16

    NEA will award cooperative agreements of up to $150,000 with a 1-1 match. Awards support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. This would be a good opportunity to discuss with university partners. Deadline: This funding opportunity closed on March 29, 2021.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Public Humanities Projects

    06/22/16

    NEH grants of up to $400,000 support planning and implementation projects that bring the humanities to life for the public through public programming. Deadline: January 8, 2025. (Optional draft due December 4, 2024).

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    Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

    04/25/16

    Provides up to $10,000 to help small institutions improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. We expect to see the next competition with a deadline of January 9, 2025.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Preservation and Access Education and Training

    04/25/16

    Up to $350,000 is available from NEH to train staff members of cultural institutions. Stations with experience in digitally preserving recorded sound and moving image collections may find a fit here. The next competition is expected to open February 20, 2025 with a deadline of May 20, 2025.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Common Heritage

    03/29/16

    This NEH program offers $12,000 for the digitization of cultural materials provided by the public and accompanying public programming. Deadline was May 31, 2018.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Humanities Access Grants

    03/17/16

    NEH's Humanities Access grants award up to $100,000 to help support capacity building for programs that benefit children, families and young adults. Deadline was May 2, 2018.

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    Digital Humanities Implementation Grants

    12/02/15

    This NEH program funds innovative digital humanities projects. Awards will range from $100,000 to $325,000. Deadline was February 17, 2016.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions

    11/25/15

    NARA will fund 25 projects that publish historical records with free online access for a total of $3 million. The final deadline for 2019 was October 3, 2019.

  • Arts and Humanities

    Native American Native Hawaiian Museum Services

    09/22/15

    This IMLS program will award up to $1,472,000 to support projects that sustain Native American/Native Hawaiian cultural heritage through various activities. Deadline was November 15, 2019.

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    Dialogues on the Experience of War

    07/17/15

    This NEH program, which awards up to $100,000, supports discussion programs with veterans, service members and scholars on humanities sources about war. The most recent competition closed on September 17, 2024. We expect to see another competition in 2025.

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    The Nathan Cummings Foundation

    06/15/15

    The Foundation is committed to democratic values and social justice and focuses its grantmaking on two issues: inequality and climate change.

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